IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 832: Books Mediating Borders in Early England
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Alexandra Reider, Department of English, Yale University |
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Moderator/Chair: | David Callander, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
Paper 832-a | Writing and Erasure: Inscribing Eternity in Early English Textual Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 832-b | Totemic Books in Old English Books (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 832-c | The Bounds of English and Latin in Early England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 832-d | Holtes on ende (At the Edge of the Woods): The Wooden Codex in The Dream of the Rood (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
Abstract | This session examines the ways books and writing mediate various boundaries in early medieval England, from material boundaries between books and other inscribable surfaces, to linguistic and cultural boundaries within and between Latin and English in Anglo-Saxon textual culture. The four proposed papers will explore different features of the book as a malleable image and a metaphor that authors employed to express both earthly cultural identity and salvation after death, making the very concept of writing essential to early English conceptions of the border. |